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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-07-06T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <reviewStage>published</reviewStage>
  <startPage num="3303" />
  <endPage num="3361" />
  <dateModified time="2024-02-06T13:33:11+10:30" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>Green Industries Fund</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Green Industries Fund</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2023-07-06T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="239">
            <name>Green Industries Fund</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20230706badd54d6d86a4e7a80000949">
          <inserted>239 <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO </by>().22 February 2023).  Can the Minister for Climate, Environment and Water advise—</inserted>
        </text>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;As at 1 July 2022 how much money was in the Green Industries Fund?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20230706badd54d6d86a4e7a80000951">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;As at 1 January 2023 how much money has been expended from the Green Industries Fund?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20230706badd54d6d86a4e7a80000952">
          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;As at 1 January 2023 which groups have received grants from the Green Industries Fund and how much did they each receive? </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2023-07-06T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="239">
            <name>Green Industries Fund</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20230706badd54d6d86a4e7a80000953">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector):</by>  The Minister for Climate, Environment and Water has been advised:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20230706badd54d6d86a4e7a80000954">
          <inserted>The answer to this question tabled on 2 May 2023 included an incorrect figure due to an administrative error. Below are the corrected responses.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20230706badd54d6d86a4e7a80000955">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;As at 1 July 2022, the cash balance of Green Industry Fund was $68,193,644. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20230706badd54d6d86a4e7a80000956">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;As at 1 January 2023, a total of $37,537,000 has been expended from the Green Industry Fund in 2022-23. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20230706badd54d6d86a4e7a80000957">
          <inserted>Expenditure includes salaries and wages, consultants and contractors, grants, transfers to other departments for climate change initiatives and other goods and services. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20230706badd54d6d86a4e7a80000958">
          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;Information regarding recipients of funding through Green Industries SA's funding programs is available via the agency's website, its annual reports and in answers to estimates committee questions.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
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